Alipay News, Stats and Insights

The mobile payment transactions totaled 14.92 billion with an amount of 62.88 trillion yuan (US$9.09T) in Q2 2018, an increase of 73.09% and 60.24% year-on-year, respectively. The mobile payment users were expected to reach 650 million by the end of 2018. The young are the major users of mobile payment. 59.9% of mobile payment users […]

Alipay announced the overseas transaction summary for this year’s Golden Week (October 1-7). It processed 2.2 times as many overseas in-store transactions during this year’s holiday compared to last year. Top destinations by transaction volume are Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan.

Some mobile apps have developed mini-apps in China, which requires no installation and allows instant usage on their platforms by users. The leading ones are WeChat, Alipay, and Baidu while Huawei, Vivo, Xiaomi and 9 other major applications have also developed their own. While WeChat Mini-Programs leads the game, Alipay mini-apps also shows some potential. […]

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Alibaba Group this week announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration aimed at enhancing the customer experience for travelers. The collaboration encompasses several players in Alibaba Group’s ecosystem including Fliggy, Alibaba Cloud, Alipay and Cainiao Network.

Alipay announced its partnership with Global Tax Free (“GTF”), a tax refund agency, to launch the world’s first paperless mobile tax refund function in South Korea. It simplifies the process by enabling Chinese tourists to apply for and claim tax rebates on their mobile phone app.

The transactions of online payment in China totaled exceeded US$3 billion in 2017, with a decrease of 0.5% from 2016. China’s mobile payment had 562 million users in 2017, up by 21.6% over 2016. It is estimated to reach 650 billion users by the end of 2018. The transactions of online payment totaled 20.751 billion yuan […]

The total transactions of third-party mobile payment reached 40.36451 trillion yuan (US$6.08 Tn) in Q1 2018, up by 6.99% over Q4 2017 and dominated by Alibaba affiliated Alipay (54%) and Tencent Finance. Alipay continued to lead this market with a share of 53.76%, followed by Tencent Finance (38.96%), they combined accounted for 92.71% of the […]

When you are still astonished by the unique experiences brought by mobile payment in China, WeChat and Alipay have already started to lead a new payment innovation out of smartphones. Highways contactless payment Alipay launched “license plate payment”. As long as the Zhima Credit is more than 550 points, users can directly bind their car […]

The total transactions of China’s 3rd-party online payment market grew by about 5% QoQ in Q4 2017 while mobile payment continued strong growth of 28% QoQ. Alipay, WeChat Pay, and UnionPay continue to lead these markets. Third-party online payment in China The transaction value of China’s third-party online payment grew by 4.99% QoQ to 6,699.724 […]